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Sobatchja Morda posted:One thing that Predator sequels forget is that the original played into a zeitgeist of ancient aliens, cropcircles, UFOs and other extraterrestrial stuff. There's something from space, it considers us animals at best, and it appears when the summer is hot. When it's gone, you just find mutilated bodies and that's it. To make it even better, don't tip that it's an actual Predator. Even in marketing & advertisement. Let the reveal be a true  moment.
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Android Apocalypse posted:To make it even better, don't tip that it's an actual Predator. Even in marketing & advertisement. Let the reveal be a true Could do a fake-out with it as a minotaur with its head tilted back so its mouth spines look like horns in silhouette.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Predator tailors who make their mesh suits. They just steal ladies' fishnet tights.
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Cowslips Warren posted:For a Predator movie, poo poo, just have one set on Halloween night, something fucks up their ship so they crash it, and wild hunting ensues when they can't fix it. Or they're rear end in a top hat teenage Predators that stole the ship so their loving Predator parents have to come by later to clean poo poo up. 'rear end in a top hat teenage predator' is, funnily enough, the premise of Archie vs Predator. And the ending is wild. After the Predator goes through nearly all of the Archie cast on the slightest excuse and appears to have a crush on Betty and Veronica, and is finally captured after managing to kill a hulked-up Archie, the girls use some secret super-medical tech Veronica's dad has to turn the Predator into their new Archie. muscles like this! posted:Something I think is kind of dumb about the Predator franchise is the idea that their whole society revolves around hunting. Its one of those bad sci-fi tropes where humans can be all sorts of things but every alien species has a monoculture that revolves around one thing. One of the Blue Stripes Logs on the frontpage was about a Predator technician. Also, there was an actual Star Trek species (Voyager, of course) who were transparently Predator analogues, so obsessed with hunting it's pointed out that the rest of their society is collapsing. There is of course a better take on it in DS9, or at least more interesting, when an apparent alien refugee is actually a genetically engineered, sentient quarry for alien hunters, with Predator-esque abilities divided between them. (the quarry can turn invisible, while the hunters have limited ability to see through its invisibility, and also have the ominous red dot sights) Most of the ideas that their culture revolves entirely around hunting come from EU stuff, which is usually dumb and edgy. Always thought a more interesting take is that the Predators are the equivalent of big game hunters slash Bubba on a turkey shoot; they're not bringing their war gear for the same reason you don't bring artillery and air strikes to a deer hunt. Though reminded of that goon who used a drone with thermal cameras operated by a spotter to assist in hunting feral pigs with a spear. There's similar themes with how the Predators have very arbitrary- to us- ideas of honour and mercy, as they won't bother hunting someone unarmed, won't kill pregnant targets, etc.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:'rear end in a top hat teenage predator' is, funnily enough, the premise of Archie vs Predator. And the ending is wild. After the Predator goes through nearly all of the Archie cast on the slightest excuse and appears to have a crush on Betty and Veronica, and is finally captured after managing to kill a hulked-up Archie, the girls use some secret super-medical tech Veronica's dad has to turn the Predator into their new Archie. wut 
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We're halfway through the series Your Honour and found it odd that Margo Martindale plays Bryan Cranston's mother in law even though she's only five years older than him. He could have had a young wife I guess, its just weird to cast people who look around the same age.
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Then there's the Space Captain Smith novels. Suruk the Slayer is a shameless parody of the Predator, obsessed with honour, killing and the way of the warrior. But it turns out that most of his species have settled down and become civilised, and Suruk himself is a terrible disappointment to his former barbarian father who wanted him to be an accountant.
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The Skulker in Danny Phantom was a pretty standard Predator riff but turned out to be a tiny ghost in a suit. I like to think that's just what Predator ghosts are.
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Android Apocalypse posted:To make it even better, don't tip that it's an actual Predator. Even in marketing & advertisement. Let the reveal be a true There's no way that'd happen these days. The secret would be outed almost instantly and even printed as magazine covers. It'd be like trying to keep Arnold's role a secret in T2 that the trailers spoiled immediately.
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Manager Hoyden posted:I think the original Predator's hotpants/fishnet bodysuit ensemble implied his primary occupation wasn't hunter. This is now my head cannon. Predators are just space freaks out for a good time.
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Predator but instead of fighting Arnie for human spines in the jungle, it's fighting him for the love of the alien queen, who runs a New York fashion magazine.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:This is now my head cannon. Head canon. Shoulder cannon.
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Mister Mind posted:Head canon. Head cannon: Gunther Hermann from Deus Ex posted:Might I sugest agin, a skul-gun for my head.
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Annabel Pee posted:We're halfway through the series Your Honour and found it odd that Margo Martindale plays Bryan Cranston's mother in law even though she's only five years older than him. He could have had a young wife I guess, its just weird to cast people who look around the same age. Brian Cox plays Alan Ruck's father on Succession despite only being ten years older than him. Then again, Alan Ruck has always looked much younger than he is.
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Sophia was actually younger than Dorothy on Golden Girls.
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I think part of the problem with the Aliens and Terminator sequels is they created this awesome world and they only do one thing with it. Send men to have sex with or kill Sarah Connor and fight Xenomorphs, but only one kind of Xenomorph. They're basing a whole universe on one type of encounter and it gets repetitive. A movie set in the Weyland-Yutani/Colonial Marine universe where they're fighting something different might be cool. Ghost Leviathan posted:The Devil Wears Chitin When are we going to get proper upvote functionality on this dead forum?
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Then again, Alan Ruck has always looked much younger than he is. holy poo poo he was 30 in ferris bueller Broderick at least was only 24
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Annabel Pee posted:We're halfway through the series Your Honour and found it odd that Margo Martindale plays Bryan Cranston's mother in law even though she's only five years older than him. He could have had a young wife I guess, its just weird to cast people who look around the same age. The Manchurian Candidate has Angela Lansbury playing Laurence Harvey's mother despite only being 3 years older than him.
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muscles like this! posted:Something I think is kind of dumb about the Predator franchise is the idea that their whole society revolves around hunting. Its one of those bad sci-fi tropes where humans can be all sorts of things but every alien species has a monoculture that revolves around one thing. We're in the Predator's untamed wilds part of the universe. We've only seen hunters because they are the only ones who would bother to come out here. It's like a deer saying that humans are a monoculture of hunters. The rest of the Predators just do their day job and dream of one day leaving their boring office, hopping in their uncle's old space junker and strapping on a shoulder cannon for an afternoon
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Evilreaver posted:It's like a deer saying that humans are a monoculture of hunters. So you're suggesting a Bambi/Predator crossover where the Predator turns out to be a human hunter.
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Cowslips Warren posted:For a Predator movie, poo poo, just have one set on Halloween night, something fucks up their ship so they crash it, and wild hunting ensues when they can't fix it. Or they're rear end in a top hat teenage Predators that stole the ship so their loving Predator parents have to come by later to clean poo poo up. Just do a predator movie set on a different planet with all kinds of weird alien buffalo and flora and fauna and poo poo,nothing but made up alien language and predator clicks.
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nexus6 posted:There's no way that'd happen these days. The secret would be outed almost instantly and even printed as magazine covers. It'd be like trying to keep Arnold's role a secret in T2 that the trailers spoiled immediately. Yeah, the internet pretty much quashed any hope of a secret being kept until the premiere. When was the last time you saw a movie that pulled a moment on you?Ghost Leviathan posted:'rear end in a top hat teenage predator' is, funnily enough, the premise of Archie vs Predator. And the ending is wild. After the Predator goes through nearly all of the Archie cast on the slightest excuse and appears to have a crush on Betty and Veronica, and is finally captured after managing to kill a hulked-up Archie, the girls use some secret super-medical tech Veronica's dad has to turn the Predator into their new Archie.  . Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Just do a predator movie set on a different planet with all kinds of weird alien buffalo and flora and fauna and poo poo,nothing but made up alien language and predator clicks. They kinda did that with Predators, but not enough exotic fauna IMO.
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Marcade posted:A God drat vampire Pomeranian!? Also a God drat vampire's Pomeranian. 
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Blade: Trinity is a glorious train wreck of a movie that I'll stop to watch if it's on TV.
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I threw on Unfriended the other night and it irritates me for two reasons. One is that I actually liked it, and the second is the main character, Blaire, is just so bad with computers. It was 2013 when that movie came out and she's asking what a troll is, not using keyboard shortcuts to copy/paste, and just generally seems really lacking in basic computer skills. I'm guessing part of it is for the audience's benefit, but it makes her seem stupider than the average teen horror protagonist.
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Android Apocalypse posted:When was the last time you saw a movie that pulled a As far as big enough films for the internet to give a poo poo, probably Batman Begins.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Blade: Trinity is a glorious train wreck of a movie that I'll stop to watch if it's on TV. Between Triple H pretending to be able to act, Wesley Snipes refusing to act, Ryan Reynolds trying his best to make it interesting and the insanity of the plot, yeah, the third movie is the most entertaining.
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Leavemywife posted:I threw on Unfriended the other night and it irritates me for two reasons. One is that I actually liked it, and the second is the main character, Blaire, is just so bad with computers. It was 2013 when that movie came out and she's asking what a troll is, not using keyboard shortcuts to copy/paste, and just generally seems really lacking in basic computer skills. I regularly teach people of all ages (17 to 70) these things fairly often, especially keyboard shortcuts because no one uses keyboards anymore unless that's literally their job. Basic computer skills are not as common as you may think. Unless she's supposed to be a savvy teenager, this is entirely real to me.
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marshmallow creep posted:I regularly teach people of all ages (17 to 70) these things fairly often, especially keyboard shortcuts because no one uses keyboards anymore unless that's literally their job. Basic computer skills are not as common as you may think. Unless she's supposed to be a savvy teenager, this is entirely real to me. That makes sense. I know in my college career, I had to take some basic computer skills classes (covered things like how to use Word, Excel, keyboard shortcuts) that were basically free credits to me because I knew it, but thinking about it now, there were some people around my age that acted like it was wizardry. It just seems weird to me, but then again, my experiences aren't the norm.
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Memento posted:Between Triple H pretending to be able to act, Wesley Snipes refusing to act, Ryan Reynolds trying his best to make it interesting and the insanity of the plot, yeah, the third movie is the most entertaining. It's unironically my favorite for all those reasons and more. Jessica Biel with the over the top gravitas, random patton Oswalt, 1000 loving one-liners from everyone, AND John Michael Higgins? Plus Parker Posey as the bitchiest vampire. So goddamn fun.
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Between them filing it with tons of apple product shots, THEN going to apple to ask them if they wanna sponsor it, to beil's weird bow that shoots faster and faster with no changes whatsoever for some goddamn reason, there's always something to love about it. Hell, Reynold's weird gigantic guns that take a picture of whoever they shoot for whatever hosed up reason.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Between them filing it with tons of apple product shots, THEN going to apple to ask them if they wanna sponsor it  I had no idea it was in that order. That's fantastic! Tell me there's a write up about it somewhere
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Fat Chandler Bing in the later seasons of Friends isn’t as good as skinny Chandler Bing. It may seem harsh but I would have preferred if Matthew Perry had stayed addicted to crack the entire run.
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Memento posted:Between Triple H pretending to be able to act, Wesley Snipes refusing to act, Ryan Reynolds trying his best to make it interesting and the insanity of the plot, yeah, the third movie is the most entertaining. Also Dominic Purcell chewing the hell out of the scenery as Dracula. Push El Burrito posted:Also a God drat vampire's Pomeranian. Also, the correct response is "gently caress me sideways!" Also, I use "also" too drat much, jeez.
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Marcade posted:Also Dominic Purcell chewing the hell out of the scenery as Dracula. He's the entirely bland lowpoint of the film.
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